Federal Employee Appeal Rights Removed for Excepted Service

MSPB is removing appeal rights for certain civil service employees placed or moved into excepted service positions without civil service protections, reflecting OPM's rescission of those appeal rights. Affected federal employees will lose MSPB review options for these placement actions.

Status
Backlog
Category
Civil Rights
Geographic Scope
National
Priority Score
87

Timeline

  1. : Additional coverage detected: The Merit Systems Protection Board is removing appeal rights for employees moved into excepted service positions without civil service protections, following OPM's rescission; this reduces avenues for federal employees to challenge such personnel actions.
  2. : Issue automatically created from AI pipeline analysis. MSPB is removing appeal rights for certain civil service employees placed or moved into excepted service positions without civil service protections, reflecting OPM's rescission of those appeal rights. Affected federal employees will lose MSPB review options for these placement actions.

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